Multiple news sources are now reporting that New York Senator Hillary Clinton has communicated to supporters definite plans to close down her presidential campaign on Friday and concede the Democratic nomination to rival Barack Obama, whom she will endorse.
The odds on Mayor Willie
Herenton's taking leave of his current job for a MacArthur-like return as
superintendent of the city's schools fluctuate wildly from week to week. But if there should turn out to a mayor's race this year, we have a
basic cast-of-characters in waiting ...
Bill Hobbs, the Tennessee Republican Party communications director whose flirtations with notoriety have more than once gained him national attention, is on the hot seat again once more because of a sally against someone named Obama -- this time the Democratic presidential candidate's wife, Michelle Obama.
Governor sees GOP lagging in electoral prowess nationwide; cites tight 2012 race in North Carolina as warning to overconfident Tennessee Republicans; Fincher proclaims a GOP version of the social gospel.